About this title: In 1928, and again in 1937, parts of a large-scale bronze horse and nearly complete jockey were recovered from the sea off Cape Artemision in Greece, where they had gone down in a shipwreck. These original Hellenistic sculptures, known together as the 'Horse and Jockey Group from Artemision', are among the very few surviving bronze sculptures from antiquity. Sean Hemingway has been allowed by the National Museum in Athens to investigate the horse and jockey statuary group as no one ever has before, and in this book, combining archaeological and art historical methods of investigation, he ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 7-8-04
ISBN-13:9780520233089ISBN:0520233085
Description: FINE. Clean, crisp, unread hardcover with light shelfwear to the dust jacket, possible remainder mark to one edge-VERY NICE! 1.59 lbs. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13:9780520233089ISBN:0520233085
Description: New. 0520233085 Anyone who visits the National Archaeological Museum in Athens will vividly recall its centrepiece, the Horse and Jockey bronzes that were recovered in pieces from the sea off Artemision in 1928 and 1936. Bronze sculptures were popular throughout the Hellenistic world, the most famous being the Colossus of Rhodes, but very few survive today and the majority of those that do come from shipwrecks. The Horse and Jockey is one of the best to survive and forms the focus of this well ... read more
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